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Ask HN: How do you keep documentation up to date with AI generated code?

A Hacker News user asks how teams keep documentation up to date when AI generates a large percentage of code, citing statistics like 75% of code at Google being AI-generated and open-source projects overwhelmed with low-quality pull requests.

read1 min views1 publishedJul 7, 2026

I've seen numbers like 75% of code at Google is AI generated, huge %s of code overall is AI generated, open source projects overwhelmed with "slop" PR requests.

It's pretty undeniable that AI code is here to stay - so on your teams / companies how are you managing staying up on PR reviews, and documentation?

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825447](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825447)

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